Che Guevara

Full Name Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna

Country: Argentina, Cuba was born on June 14, 1928 in Rosario, Argentina, in a liberal middle-class family. He is the first of five children.

Cause: the liberation of Cuba from a corrupt military dictatorship, and resistance to U.S. interference in the political affairs of Cuba.

He believed that a new man could create a just and egalitarian society and the armed resistance against the opponents of socialism.

1947 - studying medicine

works at the General Hospital of Mexico and is the faculty teaches.

In Peru, working in the leper colony for the poor and the disadvantaged during their long journeys.

1955 - met Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary. Part of his life fighting passed by the Cuban revolution

He had to remain between a doctor or take the weapon, Guevara writes: "I was faced with the dilemma of medicine to devote myself to my duty as a revolutionary soldier. I had before me a backpack full of drugs and a case of ammunition, two was too heavy to carry together. Take and ammunition left behind the pack

1967 -, complains of little support for the guerrillas, as Che had become a symbol for youth around the world, the military was behind his arrest.

On October 8, Guevara was wounded and captured in the mountains of central Bolivia.

"I am Che Guevara and worth more alive than dead, " he tells his captors. And the CIA

He was executed with four shots in the chest. His last words: "I know you've come to kill me. " Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man. "

Guevara died at the age of 39.

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